Steel, power & cement companies bag major slice of blocks auctioned in 6th commercial coal auctionsJindal Power won Gare Palma Sector - I, Gare Palma IV/2 and Gare Palma IV/3 coal mines located in Chhattisgarh. Rungta Sons Private Limited...
02 Apr, 2023, 12.22 PM IST
Govt receives bids for 32 mines in 6th round of commercial coal auctionOf the 32 coal mines bid for, 10 are partially explored and 22 are fully explored. The cumulative peak rated capacity of the fully explored...
31 Jan, 2023, 08.45 PM IST
42 coal mines auctioned till date for commercial mining: Government"Under the commercial coal mining auction process, a total of 42 coal mines, including... mines auctioned in tranche-3, have been successfu...
12 Feb, 2022, 03.54 PM IST
Commercial mining: 53 bids for 20 coal mines; Vedanta, Hindalco, JSW among biddersThe auction process of 88 mines for sale of coal was launched by the Ministry of Coal on October 12, according to an official statement."A ...
15 Dec, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
Coal mining to be resumed in Arunachal Pradesh after 7 yearsThe Supreme Court in a recent judgement lifted the suspension from Namchik-Namphuk, the lone coalfield in the state, in Changlang district,...
02 Jul, 2019, 08.42 PM IST
Coal India taking steps to restart mining of Gare Palma IV/1 blockBalco, part of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd, in the coal block auction earlier this year had emerged as the highest bidder for the coal min...
10 Dec, 2015, 03.32 PM IST
MoEF takes off two coal blocks from the auction list, reduces size & lease period of anotherIn a memorandum to the coal ministry on December 22, 2014, the environment ministry gave its comments on the 74 coal blocks that had been l...
26 Feb, 2015, 05.18 AM IST
Coal mining in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh suspended in 2012The company was awarded the contract for a period of five years, which was later extended to another two years according to provisions of t...
30 Jan, 2015, 04.00 PM IST
Vibrant Gujarat Summit: Coal block auction to private companies to start soon says Arun JaitleyThe government on December 27 last year invited bids for 24 mines. It later dropped one block from the list of 24 due to "technical reasons...
12 Jan, 2015, 07.37 PM IST
Coal mine bidders raise concern about first stage price offersDuring pre-bid meeting attended by almost 100 cos, questions were also raised on different issues including end-use plants linked to the co...
12 Jan, 2015, 05.37 PM IST
Government drops 1 coal mine from list of blocks put under auctionThe government has dropped one coal block from the list of 24 mines, that have been put under the hammer in the first tranche, due to "tech...
05 Jan, 2015, 06.28 PM IST
SAIL, NTPC asked to give JV information of mines for submission to Supreme CourtThe government has sought affidavit from allotees of 61 coal and lignite mines like JSPL and Hindalco about the status of mines.
04 Sep, 2014, 04.10 PM IST
Centre assures resumption of coal mining at Namchik-NamphukThe Minister mooted the selling of the excess coal produced in the Namchik-Namphuk coalfield to National Thermal Power Corporation to incre...
02 Jul, 2014, 01.31 PM IST
- BJP rejects Union minister V Narayanswami's statement on coal extraction
BJP today rejected statement of V Narayanswami regarding extraction of coal from Namchik-Namphuk coal block.
15 Sep, 2012, 04.03 PM IST
- Coal India to hire consultant to curb illegal mining
State-run Coal India will soon appoint a consultant to help it check pilferage at its mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
15 Jun, 2012, 02.42 AM IST
- Illegal mining funding extremists in Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh Mineral Development & Trading Corp (APMDTC), which owns the block, estimates about 84 million tonnes high quality coal re...
07 May, 2012, 01.58 AM IST